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Most horse racing staking plans tell you to bet bigger after every loser. The 10K System does the opposite — one of three betting systems Peter Travers set out for Australian punters, where the sta...

The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...

Do lucky saddlecloth numbers win? In 2007 a Practical Punting writer counted 660 Australian horse racing results — 7,363 runners, every TAB number from one to ten — instead of arguing about it. Num...

Most punters back each-way without ever pricing it. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: an each-way bet is not one bet with a safety net, it is two bets sold in a single tra...

Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.

Most punters read a form guide without ever deciding which parts of it matter. This is horse racing form study from 1992 that still holds up: what a formline tells you, and what it quietly hides.

Trainer Guy Walter is preparing to raise the bar again for in-form mare Foxstar who will be nominated for this week's Villiers Stakes.Walter said he would also enter her in a restricted race on Sat...

The Villiers Stakes is a summer target for comeback gelding Al Dhafra if he improves as trainer Guy Walter expects, starting with his assignment at Rosehill on Saturday.The five-year-old finished l...

The Villiers Stakes picture will become clearer after Saturday when several leading contenders clash in the Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.The 1500-metre race has long been a key guide to the G...

The Villiers Stakes picture will become clearer after Saturday when several leading contenders clash in the Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.The 1500-metre race has long been a key guide to the G...

Wazn has been well supported to give Chris Waller another Sydney distance feature, joining Straight Albert at the head of the market for Monday's City Tattersall's Cup (2095m).Part of the large tea...

Lyncean Academy showed he was on target for an overdue Group win with a barnstorming victory at Rosehill which set him on the path to next month's Villiers Stakes.Trainer Guy Walter is an unabashed...